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In my the first part of my Microsoft Zune review, I mentioned that frustration with the autoplaylist feature of the Zune jukebox software had driven me [...]
Yesterday I asked around on twitter about any sort of software that provided linux/mac style virtual/multiple desktop support for Vista. I was abruptly met with “No.” and a “Get a mac.” as responses.
Fortunately, Google is my friend – and failing my friends suggestions, I did a couple quick searches for the software in question. [...]
So allegedly Jake is foolish enough to have given me an “Editor” account on here – which not only lets me post stuff – but also lets me edit his posts. Now I’m a generally responsible person, but seriously – I made the Martina-Shot, okay?
Also, the new WordPress admin panel is much nicer than it [...]
The big news today (well, yesterday by the time this goes live) was that Windows Vista SP1 had released to manufacturing. Annoyingly enough, this doesn’t mean it’s available for public download yet, and end users will have to wait until in mid-March from Windows Update, or mid-April through Automatic Updates. I’ll keep my eye out [...]
Also tagged network, sp1, windowsI’ve discussed the holy grail of pixel mapping for the Sony E2000-series LCD projection televisions before. With the latest nVidia drivers on Vista, I believe I’ve found the most practical solution to this issue.
First, it’s notable that even using the HDMI inputs, 1:1 pixel mapping doesn’t seem easily attainable from a PC. While the native [...]
Over the past few days this site has had a ridiculous number of hits outside its ordinary audience. This seems to be due to two particular referrals at the same time, both referencing my post on Leopard showing networked PC’s with blue screens of death:
Unfortunately, the StumbleUpon community seems to be somewhere around the Digg [...]
Also tagged blue screen of death, bsod, os x, stumbleupon, windowsQuite a number of new systems I’ve built have included the P5B Deluxe or P5B Deluxe-WiFi motherboards. After an aggravating experience with a new build today – really out of the ordinary for the hardware – I figured I’d write up my experiences to save other people a potential issue.
Symptoms: When installing Vista x64 on [...]
Over the past few days, I’ve been trying to achieve the proverbial “holy grail” of display resolutions with my Sony KF-42E200A television. These series of TV’s also go by the series name E2000; the A in E200A indicates the Canadian model of this set. They use LCD rear projection technology, and are nearly deprecated in [...]
Also tagged hardware, hdtv, nvidia, pixel mapping, resolution, sony, windowsI’ve moaned and whined about the half-baked operating system Microsoft imbued upon the world earlier this year, and how its only real significant plus, for me, is the upgraded edition of Media Center. For the record, MCE has always seemed like beta software to me, and there’s no exception with Vista’s edition. About once a [...]
Also tagged media center, microsoft, server, windows, windows home serverSince the wonderful Xbox 360 will likely never have support for Matroska video containers, commonly known as “x264″ files, I ended up building myself a Media Center PC that hooks up to the Sony KF-42E200A over a DVI to HDMI cable. Relevant statistics:
Core 2 Duo E4300, 1.8GHz per core
Asus P5B Socket 775 motherboard
2GB DDR2-800 RAM
Spare [...]